Devex uses cookies to provide you with the best possible user experience. By continuing to use the website, we understand that you accept our Cookies Policy. To learn more, please see our Privacy Statement.

USAID's Neglected Tropical Disease Program

The initiative aims to ensure a wide-scale and sustainable availability of effective and affordable drugs needed to treat Neglected Tropical Diseases in affected countries through drug donations.

Neglected Tropical Disease Initiative

USAID's Neglected Tropical Diseases' (NTDs) goal under Global Health Initiative (GHI) is to reduce the prevalence of seven NTDs by 50 percent among 70 percent of affected population. With this goal, the project targets to contribute to the elimination of onchocerciasis in the Americas by 2016, the elimination of lymphatic filariasis globally by 2020, and the elimination of blinding trachoma globally by 2020.
The NTDs Program relies heavily on generous drug donations from pharmaceutical donation programs. Over $3.1 billion worth of drugs for NTD control have been donated by the pharmaceutical industry to the countries where USAID supported mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns. Four of the drugs needed to treat NTDs, albendazole, mebendazole, Mectizan® and Zithromax®, are donated by GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer, respectively. USAID coordinates closely with these pharmaceutical partners, leveraging their drug donations for USAID-supported MDAs and extending the reach of the donation programs.

Partners

USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.

U.S. foreign assistance has...

USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.

U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's interests while improving lives in the developing world. USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad.

Spending less than 1 percent of the total federal budget, USAID works in over 100 countries to:

Promote broadly shared economic prosperity;

Strengthen democracy and good governance;

Protect human rights;

Improve global health,

Advance food security and agriculture;

Improve environmental sustainability;

Further education;

Help societies prevent and recover from conflicts; and

Provide humanitarian assistance in the wake of natural and man-made disasters.

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Their mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting...

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Their mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

Established in 1944, the World Bank Group is headquartered in Washington, D.C. They have more than 10,000 employees in more than 120 offices worldwide.

The World Bank Group consists of five organizations:

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) lends to governments of middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries.

The International Development Association

The International Development Association (IDA) provides interest-free loans — called credits — and grants to governments of the poorest countries.

Together, IBRD and IDA make up the World Bank.

The International Finance Corporation

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector. We help developing countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments.

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) was created in 1988 to promote foreign direct investment into developing countries to support economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve people’s lives. MIGA fulfills this mandate by offering political risk insurance (guarantees) to investors and lenders.

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) provides international facilities for conciliation and arbitration of investment disputes.

Products and Services

The World Bank Group offers a wide range of solutions to meet development challenges, all designed to support governments in reducing poverty and boosting prosperity:

Development Policy Financing provides IBRD loan, IDA credit/grant and guarantee budget support to governments or a political subdivision for a program of policy and institutional actions to help achieve sustainable, shared growth and poverty reduction.

Program-for-Results links disbursement of funds directly to the delivery of defined results, helping countries improve the design and implementation of their own development programs and achieve lasting results by strengthening institutions and building capacity.

Trust funds and grants allow scaling up of activities, notably in fragile and crisis-affected situations; enable the Bank Group to provide support when our ability to lend is limited; provide immediate assistance in response to natural disasters and other emergencies; and pilot innovations that are later mainstreamed into our operations.

Private sector options for financing, direct investment and guarantees are provided by MIGA and IFC.

WHO (World Health Organisation) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters,...

WHO (World Health Organisation) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. WHO was founded in 1948.

193 countries and two associate members are WHO’s membership. They meet every year at the World Health Assembly in Geneva to set policy for the Organization, approve the Organization’s budget.

Over 8000 public health experts including doctors, epidemiologists, scientists, managers, administrators and other professionals from all over the world work for WHO in 147 country offices, six regional offices and at the headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The WHO agenda

WHO operates in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing landscape. The boundaries of public health action have become blurred, extending into other sectors that influence health opportunities and outcomes. WHO responds to these challenges using a six-point agenda. The six points address two health objectives, two strategic needs, and two operational approaches. The overall performance of WHO will be measured by the impact of its work on women's health and health in Africa.

1. Promoting development

2. Fostering health security

3. Strengthening health systems

4. Harnessing research, information and evidence

5. Enhancing partnerships

6. Improving performance

The role of WHO in public health

WHO fulfils its objectives through its core functions:

providing leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed;

shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge;

setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation;

They are focused on the areas of greatest need, on the ways in which they can do the most good.

From...

They are focused on the areas of greatest need, on the ways in which they can do the most good.

From poverty to health, to education, their areas of focus offer the opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of life for billions of people. So they build partnerships that bring together resources, expertise, and vision—working with the best organizations around the globe to identify issues, find answers, and drive change.

They are focused on results. Those that can be measured. And those measured in ways beyond numbers.

They see individuals, not issues. They are inspired by passion, and compassion for the wellbeing of people. Their methods are based on logic, driven by rigor, results, issues, and outcomes. Their innovation means trying new things, learning from their mistakes, and consistently refining their approach. Their strategies help us define their path to success, but their effectiveness is based in the aggregate power of their initiatives to impact holistic change.

They work with partner organizations worldwide to tackle critical problems in four program areas. Their Global Development Division works to help the world’s poorest people lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Their Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. Their United States Division works to improve U.S. high school and postsecondary education and support vulnerable children and families in Washington State. And their Global Policy & Advocacy Division seeks to build strategic relationships and promote policies that will help advance their work. Their approach to grantmaking in all four areas emphasizes collaboration, innovation, risk-taking, and, most importantly, results.

We are a science-led global healthcare company that researches and develops a broad range of innovative medicines and brands. Our products are used by millions of people around the world,...

We are a science-led global healthcare company that researches and develops a broad range of innovative medicines and brands. Our products are used by millions of people around the world, helping them to do more, feel better and live longer.

We have three primary areas of business in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and consumer healthcare. Our commercial success depends on creating innovative new products and making these accessible to as many people who need them as possible. By achieving this, we will be able to grow our business and provide benefits to patients, consumers, society, our employees and our shareholders.

With our headquarters in the UK, we have a wide geographical reach. We have offices in more than 115 countries, major research centres in the UK, USA, Spain, Belgium and China and an extensive manufacturing network with around 70 sites globally.

Research is vitally important to the success of our business, and we spent just under £4 billion in 2011 in our search to develop new medicines, vaccines and innovating consumer products. We are one of the few healthcare companies researching medicines and vaccines for the World Health Organisation’s three priority diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Pharmaceuticals

Our pharmaceuticals business researches, develops and makes available medicines that treat a variety of serious and chronic diseases. We have medicines available or in development in a wide range of areas including:

infectious diseases

cancer

epilepsy

heart disease

asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

HIV/AIDS

VaccinesOur vaccine business is one of the largest in the world, with over 1.1 billion doses distributed to 173 countries. We produce paediatric and adult vaccines to prevent a range of infectious diseases including:

hepatitis A and B

diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough

measles, mumps and rubella

polio

typhoid

influenza

bacterial meningitis

Consumer Healthcare

Through our consumer healthcare business, we market a range of consumer health products based on scientific innovation. We have leading positions in four main categories:

Merck is an innovative, global healthcare leader that is committed to improving health and well-being around the world. At Merck, they're applying their global reach, financial strength and...

Merck is an innovative, global healthcare leader that is committed to improving health and well-being around the world. At Merck, they're applying their global reach, financial strength and scientific excellence to do more of what they're passionate about: improving health and improving lives.

Their product offering categories include heart and respiratory health, infectious diseases, sun care and women's health. They continue to focus their research on conditions that affect millions of people around the world - diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer - while expanding our strengths in areas like vaccines and biologics.

They also devote extensive time and energy to increasing access to medicines and vaccines through far-reaching programs that donate and deliver their products to the people who need them.

At Merck, corporate responsibility is their daily commitment to tackle the world's biggest health challenges by discovering better ways to make a difference in everything they do. It is a simple promise that is embedded in their business and informs all their individual actions.

VISION

To make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. They are committed to being the premier, research-intensive biopharmaceutical company and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for today and the future.

MISSION

To discover, develop and provide innovative products and services that save and improve lives around the world.

Access to Health

It is unacceptable that the vast majority of people around the world are unable to benefit from advances in medicines and healthcare. To help address this global dilemma, we are committed to discovering smart, sustainable ways to expand access to healthcare. Their new Statement of Guiding Principles, which guide their worldwide approach to access to health, outline specific c goals to assure progress across their business from R&D and the supply chain to commercialization and investment in local infrastructure.

Environmental Sustainability

They’re making sure they respect the earth’s resources with a commitment to discover environmentally sustainable ways to meet the world’s health needs. They have defined a road map to guide their progress, from reducing their environmental footprint in the short term, to transforming their entire value chain over the longer term.

Ethics and Transparency

They are transparent and open not just because we believe it’s right, but because it’s central to how they serve the people who depend on them. They’re committed to ethical behavior and transparent communications across their global business. And they’re working every day to earn their stakeholders’ trust by engaging audiences on all sides of the issues that matter, and by going beyond mandatory disclosure to proactively communicate key information in greater detail than ever before.

Employees

The talent, diversity and integrity of Merck’s people drive their success. They’re committed to discovering new ways to help their employees and their business thrive. This means supporting employees not just as workers, but as people — developing resources and opportunities that help employees grow professionally, helping to improve the health of their employees and their families, and encouraging them to get involved in their communities in ways that are meaningful.

At Pfizer, they apply science and their global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives.

They strive to set the standard for quality,...

At Pfizer, they apply science and their global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives.

They strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products. Their global portfolio includes medicines and vaccines as well as many of the world's best-known consumer health care products.

Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of their time. Consistent with their responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, they collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 150 years, Pfizer has worked to make a difference for all who rely on them.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting public health...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the United States.

CDC’s focus is not only on scientific excellence but also on the essential spirit that is CDC – to protect the health of all people. CDC keeps humanity at the forefront of its mission to ensure health protection through promotion, prevention, and preparedness.

Composed of the Office of the Director, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Center for Global Health, and five Offices, including Public Health Preparedness and Response; State and Local Support; Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services; Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health; and Infectious Diseases. CDC employs more than 15,000 employees in more than 50 countries and in 168 occupational categories

Our public health approach is simple: First find out what’s making people sick and killing them and then do the things that work to protect them and make them healthier. With this philosophy in mind, we are at the forefront of public health efforts. We work with many partners at the local, state, and national levels to improve the public’s health, with a particular focus in the following areas:

• Increasing support to local and state shealth departments - We are only as strong as our partnerships. We are passionate about offering the best technical, financial, and direct assistance possible for the good of the whole in public health.

• Improving global health - Provide unwavering leadership in health policy development. We strengthen the ability of governments and organizations across the globe to achieve their health goals and deepen the effectiveness and efficiency of their health systems.

• Decreasing leading causes of death - We are fiercely devoted to improving the social determinants of health — disparities in the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. These imbalances are largely responsible for health inequities in everything from obesity to heart disease.

• Strengthening surveillance and epidemiology - Rigorous surveillance and epidemiology are our most powerful tools. They form our ethos and the foundation of our authority.

• Reforming Health Policies - Prevention is on the map as never before; it is key to the future of health in this country and is a part of the legislation currently under debate. We are closely monitoring the legislation and potential impacts on public health entities and are working closely.

CDC′s Procurement and Grants Office The CDC awards nearly 85 percent of its budget through grants and contracts to help accomplish its mission to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. Contracts procure goods and services used directly by the agency, and grants assist other health-related and research organizations that contribute to CDC′s mission through health information dissemination, preparedness, prevention, research, and surveillance. Each year, the CDC awards approximately $7 billion in over 14,000 separate grant and contract actions, including simplified acquisitions. This website provides information on grants and business opportunities with the CDC.

Funding for Individuals or Business Start-Up Costs Because CDC grants are intended to support a public purpose – health promotion and disease prevention for people throughout the United States and around the world – the CDC provides grants to organizations whose work affects many people. The CDC does not provide financial assistance to individuals for their healthcare costs; however, the federal government provides this type of assistance through Medicare and Medicaid . Similarly, the CDC does not provide start-up funds or loans for health-related businesses or projects; however, the contracts portion of this website provides useful information on finding contract opportunities with the CDC. Additionally, the federal government provides assistance to entrepreneurs through the Small Business Administration .

The FY 2011 President’s Budget Request includes a total of $10.6 billion of funding for CDC and ATSDR. This request reflects an increase of $100.5 million above the FY 2010 Omnibus. With the addition of $225 million from P.L. 111-32, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009, CDC FY 2011 programmatic resources are $6.6 billion. Therefore, CDC’s budget authority decreases because CDC will use approximately $225 million in unobligated balances from the FY 2009 Pandemic Influenza Supplemental to offset budget authority for pandemic flu and for a portion of Strategic National Stockpile activities. This request also includes a savings of $100 million through an agency wide effort to reduce inefficiencies and improve overall management in contract and travel activities.

FHI 360’s civil society programs enable citizens to solve their own problems and influence policy. They strengthen the leadership capacity of national and community organizations and increase the transparency of government agencies. Their peacebuilding programs use locally owned and sustainable tolls to bridge differences and bring peace to divided communities.

Communication and social marketing

FHI 360’s experts use innovative communication and social marketing to promote positive social and behavior change among individuals, systems and communities. They develop strategies that address the interests of the people they are trying to reach, the obstacles to taking action and the many forces that influence behavior and choice.

Economic development

FHI 360’s economic development programs help women and men create a sound economic future for themselves and their families. Their work focuses on increasing productivity, employment and household incomes.

Education

FHI 360 works in the United States and throughout the world to create education systems that respond to the needs of the people they serve.

FHI 360 integrates a gender perspective into development programs to improve outcomes and increase equality among girls, boys, women and men. Effective gender strategies transform unequal norms and behaviors, empower women and girls, and engage men and boys as partners and agents of positive social change.

Health

For FHI 360, improving the health of the world's women, men and children is core to their mission. Good health provides the foundation for community and economic development. They seek to understand what people need to be healthy and to generate the evidence needed to address their health challenges.

Nutrition

Good nutrition is essential for maximizing human potential and national development. FHI 360 partners with country-level stakeholders, international organizations and funders to design strategies, policies, programs and systems that address nutrition emergencies and create sustainable change.

Research

FHI 360’s tagline, "The Science of Improving Lives," underscores their long history of placing evidence and research at the center of their work. At FHI 360, they use research to respond to a wide variety of human development issues, including health, education, economic development and gender.

Technology

FHI 360's experts use the multiplying effect of innovative and basic technology to further the impact of everything they do. Information and communication technology helps us make and expand connections to build and sustain relationships. They use technology to increase access to information, to improve practice and to facilitate interaction among many stakeholders.

Youth

FHI 360’s projects create opportunities for youth to complete a quality education, live healthy lives, be able to support themselves and their families, and become fully active citizens.

Global Reach

Serves more than 70 countries, including the U.S.

Representatives of 137 countries traveled to the U.S. in 2014 as part of their international exchange program

RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Clients rely on them to answer questions that demand an objective and...

RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Clients rely on them to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach—one that integrates expertise across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development.

Combining scientific rigor and technical proficiency, they deliver reliable data, thorough analysis, innovative methods, novel technologies, and sustainable programs that help clients inform public policy and ground practice in evidence. They scale their approach to fit the demands of each project, delivering the power of a global leader and the passion of a local partner.

They believe in the promise of science, and they push theirselves every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities, and businesses around the world.

Their experts hold degrees in more than 250 scientific, technical, and professional disciplines across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development fields. Their staff of more than 5,000 works in more than 75 countries—tackling hundreds of projects each year to address complex social and scientific challenges on behalf of governments, businesses, foundations, universities, and other clients and partners. And their separate business operations—RTI Health Solutions, Syntegrity, and attego—serve commercial clients across a wide range of industries around the world

They maintain offices on four continents, with their headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, reflecting their roots in the area’s distinguished universities. Founded in 1958 with support from North Carolina government, education, and business leaders, they maintain close ties with North Carolina State University, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Their dedication to innovative, objective research and technical services makes RTI an outstanding partner for clients around the world whose greatest challenges demand rigorous approaches and science-based solutions. It also makes RTI a great working environment for people who share their mission to improve the human condition.

Key Information

Devex is the media platform for the global development community.
A social enterprise, we connect and inform 900,000+
development, health, humanitarian, and sustainability professionals
through news, business intelligence, and funding & career
opportunities so you can do more good for more people.
We invite you to join us.